Millennial Generation Essay

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ADDRESSING is an acronym for the different factors that characterize one’s life. It stands for Age and generation, Developmental Disabilities and other disabilities, Religion and spiritual orientation, Ethnicity, Socioeconomic status, Sexual orientation, Indigenous heritage, National origin, and Gender. These factors influence bias that one may face in life, opportunities available, and biases that one may feel towards others. I am 19 years old and I am part of the “millennial” generation. This generation has basically grown up with the Internet and social media, which completely changes the way we interact with people as well as how we study. Being a college student in this era is probably easier than when my parents were in college because of the technology that is readily available. There is a lot of conflict and bias between our grandparents’ generation and our generation because of the way our society has dramatically changed. The way I see it, the baby boomer generation worked harder and the millennial generation works smarter. They are both equally admirable ways of doing things, but it causes a disconnect between the …show more content…

These are my most salient factors because of the amount of opportunities in education that I have been afforded. My dad has a master’s degree in engineering and my mom has a bachelor’s in education. When I was younger, I assumed everyone went to college regardless of economic status because my parents and all of their siblings had gone. I was expected to get a higher education and that was always my plan. My family lives in the more affluent part of my hometown, so I went to an elementary school with kids from similar backgrounds to my own. I had several friends whose parents were lawyers and doctors. It wasn’t until I started middle school and had classmates from the less affluent parts of town that I realized not everyone’s parents went to college and not everyone was on the college

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